A Genetics Question

I am currently enrolled in molecular genetics taught by John Meninger (Harvard graduate) who has worked with scientists such as Messelson, Holliday, and such. This is one of his questions which I thought was a bit confusing at first. He seems to think that the question makes perfect sense. It may be a bit difficult for some of you nevertheless it is a practical problem having to do with practical logic skills which does not require one to be proficient in genetics.

After you answer the question, please comment on a scale of 1-5 on how difficult you thought the question was and if there was any ambiguity in how the question was phrased. It is a bit of a tricky question. Again, anyone can solve this problem; no knowledge of genetics is required.

E coli has a base content of A=.247, G=.260, T=.236, C=.257. Recombination hot spots (X sites) are reported to exist every 5000 base pairs. Is the distribution of X sites random? Briefly explain your answer. The chi site sequence is 5' GCTGGTGG 3'.{for those of you who don't remember, dna is made up of four different kinds of nucleotides, each different nucleotide made up of either A, G, T, or C}

Yeah, I think you basically have the right idea. Nevertheless, I don't think that he intended to confuse us with the "every 5000" base pair information. Also, he did not gives us any information on how many total base pairs e.coli had so it made it slightly more difficult on understanding his concept of randomness, and using the word "distributed" did not help either.